The Director-General of Civil Aviation at Beirut International Airport, Fadi el-Hassan, affirmed today, Monday, that all international airlines operating daily flights to and from Beirut undergo annual security audits at Beirut International Airport.
El-Hassan stated in an interview with the American channel Alhurra that rumors about Hezbollah using the Lebanese airport to store weapons are baseless. He added that the purpose of such rumors is to tarnish Lebanon’s reputation and its public facilities.
Lebanon’s Minister of Public Works and Transport, Ali Hamieh, had refuted on Sunday what was reported in the British newspaper Telegraph regarding the presence of weapons at Rafic Hariri International Airport in Beirut. He confirmed that Beirut Airport has been subjected to a campaign of defamation damaging Lebanon’s reputation for years, describing Telegraph’s claims as “ridiculous.”
